Author | Mark Berthelemy
Mark Berthelemy - who has written 67 posts on Training Blog.
Solutions architect - specialising in designing and implementing systems to support online learning
Top 10 tools for learning 2010
Jane Hart is collating her annual list of the tools people use to support learning and development. Here’s my contribution. In descending order of importance: Google search. Need I say more? It’s fast. I know how to get the best out of it. It’s my secondary brain. Google Chrome. I was a Firefox person, but Chrome is just [...]
Continue reading...Conferences, presentations, streaming video and conversation
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 in E-learning Blog
This post is in response to Clive Shepherd’s thoughts on “Video Streaming brings events to a much wider audience“ Clive, Live video streaming from conferences makes the assumption that conferences are all about delivering content. I really don’t understand why we’ve got into this way of thinking. Conferences are the one time when I can have live face-to-face conversations [...]
Continue reading...The learning systems spectrum
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 in E-learning Blog
Thinking about the technology systems we use to support learning, where does yours fit? I’ve started the process. Let me know in the comments where you think systems should go on this spectrum. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Compliance – top down, “you must…“ Social – bottom up, “have you seen…” SAP Learning Solution Moodle Wordpress Yammer, Socialcast, Facebook, Twitter As with any one-dimensional spectrum, we need to [...]
Continue reading...Learning Conversations Book
Saturday, June 12, 2010 in E-learning Blog
OK – so it begins… I’ve been wanting to write a book for a long time now. It’s going to take a long time to write it, but I know that if I don’t start now I never will. The idea behind it is to take 5 years worth of thinking, reflecting and blogging and crystallise [...]
Continue reading...New technology – the threat to our information
Thursday, June 10, 2010 in E-learning Blog
Norman Lamont (from Lloyds Banking Group) takes a sideways look at the risks we face with the uncontrolled use of social technology inside our corporations. New technology – the threat to our information View more presentations from normanlamont. Original post from Learning Conversations.
Continue reading...Social media and large risk averse organisations
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 in E-learning Blog
There’s a lot I could say on this topic, but much of that will have to wait for a while. I just wanted to highlight this report that’s just been released, from Deloitte (one of the world’s largest international accounting and consulting companies. It looks at how social media is used internally to drive innovation, and externally [...]
Continue reading...Getting the message across
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 in E-learning Blog
Until fairly recently, organisations have relied on a hierarchical approach to communication. The message cascades down through the layers until it hits the bottom. We know that this message usually gets diluted, so we come up with strategies to help, like having centrally controlled online or printed content. However, this approach can’t continue. As soon as [...]
Continue reading...An hour of elearning?
Monday, June 7, 2010 in E-learning Blog
Often, when I’m asked to cost up elearning design and development, the concept of an “hour of instruction” comes up. It’s a term I’ve never been comfortable with. You’d never ask a writer to create an hour’s worth of reading. You’d give them a word limit instead. Time measurements are only suitable for passive media, like radio [...]
Continue reading...Exporting all your b2evolution posts
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 in E-learning Blog
I’m going through the process of looking through all my old posts, to see if I can make some sort of coherent resource (perhaps even a book!) out of them. I wanted to put them all into a Google Doc where I could pull the text around. I started off just copying and pasting from this [...]
Continue reading...Internal communication – learning from the web
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 in E-learning Blog
Good content is great. But good content that no-one ever sees is worthless. That’s the case with many corporate intranets; pages and pages of stuff that someone thinks is useful or important, but often the messages contained in them just don’t get out there. What can we (and in particular people developing content management systems) learn from [...]
Continue reading...Shortcuts to effective learning
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 in E-learning Blog
If you really came here looking for shortcuts to help your children or your employees learn better, more quickly and more cheaply, then I’m afraid you’re going to be sorely disappointed. What I can help you do is avoid the common things that stop learning happen, or slow down the process. Learning takes time and it takes [...]
Continue reading...Corporate viral communication
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 in E-learning Blog
As you might have gathered, I’ve been playing with Yammer and other similar tools (like SocialCast) over the past few weeks and months. In the years I’ve been working with communications systems, like newsgroups, forums, blogs, wikis etc, I’ve never seen a tool that’s able take off so quickly and easily. My experience has mirrored that [...]
Continue reading...Finding research on workplace learning
Saturday, May 15, 2010 in E-learning Blog
Reading the latest issue of ALT-J (the peer-reviewed journal of the Association for Learning Technology), you could be forgiven for thinking that Learning Technology is only being used in the formal education system (ie. primary through to tertiary), and not at all in the workplace. So I raised this question with other ALT members. The answers [...]
Continue reading...Choosing and using social software
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 in E-learning Blog
#yam Below you’ll find the slides I used for last week’s Informatology unconference talk. The whole talk was based on a blog post from last year: Ten tips for choosing and using social software. There are more references in the handout (also embedded below). I’ve learnt that a Pecha Kucha talk needs to have no more than three [...]
Continue reading...Yammer: Best practice guide #yam
Monday, May 3, 2010 in E-learning Blog
You walk into a conference room. It’s your first time at this particular conference and there’s no welcome pack. You can see quite a few people standing around drinking coffee and eating small pastries. But no-one’s talking to each other. You have three options: Turn around and walk out. Find someone you know and begin a conversation about [...]
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Monday, June 28, 2010 in E-learning Blog
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